Customize SL For Your Site

We believe that it should be easy to make a custom version of Scientific Linux for your site. We call this a “spin” in keeping with the Fedora nomenclature, but it may also be called a “site” by community members.

Making a SL 7 Context

For SL7 we recommend making a Scientific Linux Context. Detailed instructions are published with our official contexts.

Making a Respin of SL 6

Start with a machine installed with SL6 (or compatible) with the same arch as the distribution you want to build. For x86_64 you will need an x86_64 system, for i386 you will need an i386 system.

(OPTIONAL)
Edit configuration files and/or kickstart files listed below. You can change them so that they pull the packages from a different repository, have more or fewer packages on the image, or anything else you can do with a normal kickstart.NOTE: You must have anaconda as one of your packages in the kickstart, or select anaconda in the graphical package selection page or this will not be an installable image.

/etc/revisor/conf.d/revisor-sl6-i386.conf

/etc/revisor/conf.d/revisor-sl6-i386-updates.conf

/etc/revisor/conf.d/revisor-sl6-x86_64.conf

/etc/revisor/conf.d/revisor-sl6-x86_64-updates.conf

/etc/revisor/SL6/ks/sl6.everything.ks

/etc/revisor/SL6/ks/sl6.match.tuv.install.dvd.i386.ks

/etc/revisor/SL6/ks/sl6.match.tuv.install.dvd.x86_64.ks

/etc/revisor/SL6/ks/sl6.all.groups.ks

/etc/revisor/SL6/ks/sl6.small.ks

Run revisor to create your DVD
To make the official SL release we run: